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The “Indian Superbug”: Worse Than We Knew
Just about a month ago, the disease-geek world was riveted by news of the “Indian superbug“: common bacteria carrying a newly recognized gene that confers profound multi-drug resistance, and that was...
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NDM-1 in India: Drug Resistance, Political Resistance
It’s been more than a year since the “Indian superbug” NDM-1 — not actually a bacterium, but a gene that directs production of an enzyme — hit the news. The enzyme, whose acronym is short for New Delhi...
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Warm Weather Increases Hospital Infections, And What That Might Mean For...
What makes hospital-acquired infections so intractable? There’s no question that some of the organisms that cause them are tricky: MRSA hangs out on the skin and and in the nostrils, and E. coli...
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Running Out of Antibiotics: Europe Gets It
In the United States, it’s been “Get Smart About Antibiotics” Week this past week, an annual observance in which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its medical and public health...
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The ‘NIH Superbug’: This Is Happening Every Day
News has erupted over an outbreak of drug-resistant disease at an NIH-funded hospital. But Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna explains the real news is that this scene plays over and over again,...
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“Superbug” NDM-1 Found In US Cat (ICAAC 3)
The "Indian superbug" NDM-1 -- actually a gene which encodes an enzyme which confers resistance to almost all known antibiotics -- has been found for the first time in a pet, somewhere in the United...
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The ‘NIH Superbug’: A New Case, And An Overlooked Resource
News, via the Washington Post‘s hard-working health reporter Brian Vastag: After 6 months with no cases, carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella has surfaced again at the Clinical Center of the National...
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Resistant ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Increase Fivefold in Southeastern U.S.
There's worrisome news here in the southeastern US, buried in a journal that is favorite reading only for superbug geeks like me. The rate at which hospitals are recognizing cases of CRE -- the form of...
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